Tag: Hicksville
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Mystery Friday Foto #43 Solved: Three automobiles in the Hicksville Public Library Archives
Did you help the Hicksville Public Library identify these three automobiles?
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Mystery Friday Foto #35 Solved: Bert Dingley taking the Hicksville Turn in a Pope-Hartford at the 1910 Vanderbilt Cup Race
The Walter McCarthy archives again challenged you with another unpublished race photo.
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Mystery Friday Foto #29 Partially Solved: A Mitchell at the “Proposed Entrance to the Motor Parkway at Hicksville”
My favorite co-author Al Velocci needed your help to solve this weekend's Mystery Foto.
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Mystery Friday Foto #19 Solved: The 1907 Reunion of Oldsmobilists at the Empire City Track in Yonkers
Jeanne Booth, an archivist at the Hicksville Public Library, was looking for your assistance to identify two Mystery Fotos found in their archives.
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Mystery Friday Foto #13 Solved: The 1904 Vanderbilt Cup Race winner #7 Panhard driven by George Heath stopped at a Control
Jeanne Booth, an archivist at the Hicksville Public Library, was seeking your assistance in identifying this Mystery Foto found in the library's collection.
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Herb Lytle’s Great-Great-Grandson Takes a Ride in the Alco Black Beast
Last Sunday, Scott Lytle, the great-great-grandson of Vanderbilt Cup Racer Herb Lytle, and his lovely wife Marie visited me in Roslyn and took rides in the Alco Black Beast.
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Mystery Foto #39 Solved: Louis Chevrolet’s Fatal Crash in the 1910 Vanderbilt Cup Race
This weekend's Mystery Foto documented a major crash in a Vanderbilt Cup Race.
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Update-1/23:The Vanderbilt Cup Race Driver who was Developing a Unique “City” Near the Motor Parkway
Historian, publisher and musician Sheri Mignano Crawford recently discovered the role of a Vanderbilt Cup Race driver in developing a planned "city" south of Hicksville and less than one mile from the Motor Parkway.
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VanderbiltCupRaces.com Exclusive: The Lost East Wing of the Long Island Aviation Country Club
On Tuesday, my favorite co-author Al Velocci and I went exploring for lost sections of the clubhouse of the Long Island Aviation Country Club. Amazingly, we found the lost east wing!
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Driver of the Week: Eddie Hearne (1909, 1910 and 1915 Vanderbilt Cup Races)
Driver oif the Week is Eddie Hearne, who drove in the 1909 and 1910 Vanderbilt Cup Races.
The partially completed train crossing is obviously Mineola or Albertson. Staring at the picture it could easily be…